Erbario: a 15th-century Herbal from Northern Italy

Henrique Alvim Corrêa’s Illustrations for The War of the Worlds (1906)

The Expressions of Emotion in the Pigeons (1909–11)

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s Bed Series: An Intimate Look Behind the Scenes at a Paris Brothel (1890s)

Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron (ca. 1353)

Studies on Twilight Phenomena, after Krakatoa (1888)

London's Dreadful Visitation: A Year of Weekly Death Statistics during the Great Plague (1665)

Richard Deakin’s Flora of the Colosseum of Rome (1855)

Plague Doctor Costumes

Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art (1853)

Coughs, Sneezes, and Jet-Propelled Germs: Two Public Service Films by Richard Massingham (1945)

Edouard Joseph d’Alton’s Illustrations of Animal Skeletons (1821–1838)

Japanese Firemen’s Coats (19th century)

Glossary of Censored Words from a 1919 Treatise on Love

Frances Power Cobbe’s “The Peak in Darien: The Riddle of Death” (1882)

Sarah Goodridge’s Beauty Revealed (1828)

Nooks and Corners of Old New York (1899)

John Gould’s Mammals of Australia (1845–63)

The Jester (1908)

Six Plays of the Yiddish Theatre (1916)

François de Nomé’s Imaginary Ruins

George Perkins Marsh’s Man and Nature (1864)

W. W. Denslow’s Illustrations for the Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900)

Adalbert Stifter’s Rock Crystal (1846)